Good conversation here on rural transit. Where’s the line between helping people and enabling them to maintain expensive behavior? Do we need to think about transit systems or community development?

My colleague Michael Olson asked members of our Public Insight Network to tell us about how they get around. Check out the Mankato bus ride video, the oddly endearing North Shore ride video and more in the compilation below.

About the blogger

Dave Peters directs MPR’s project on community journalism, looking for ways Minnesota residents are making their towns, cities and neighborhoods better places to live. He joined MPR News in 2009 after more than 30 years as a newspaper and online reporter and editor.